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In June 2016 the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine convened the Workshop on Encryption and Mechanisms for Authorized Govern...

The Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) programs provide federal research and development fundi...

The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) is responsible for providing and maintaining the capabilities necessary to sustain a safe, secu...

Since the 2014 Ebola outbreak many public- and private-sector leaders have seen a need for improved management of global public health emergencies....

In August 2014, the committee on Defense Materials Manufacturing and Infrastructure convened a workshop to discuss issues related to applying mater...

Children with disabilities and complex medical and educational needs present a special challenge for policy makers and practitioners. These childre...

The US Global Change Research Program (USGCRP) is a collection of 13 Federal entities charged by law to assist the United States and the world to u...

Recent health care payment reforms aim to improve the alignment of Medicare payment strategies with goals to improve the quality of care provided, ...

If the United States is to sustain its economic prosperity, quality of life, and global competitiveness, it must continue to have an abundance of s...

Fertility rates and population growth influence economic development. The marked declines in fertility seen in some developing nations have been ac...

Science is a way of knowing about the world. At once a process, a product, and an institution, science enables people to both engage in the constru...

Quality of care is a priority for U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). The agency's missions abroad and their host country partners w...

The Department of Commerce operates two telecommunications research laboratories located at the Department of Commerce's Boulder, Colorado, campus:...

The workshop summarized in this report was organized as part of a study sponsored by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration ...

Currently, many states are adopting the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) or are revising their own state standards in ways that reflect the...

The market for high-skilled workers is becoming increasingly global, as are the markets for knowledge and ideas. While high-skilled immigrants in t...

In 2004, the Institute of Medicine released Health Literacy: A Prescription to End Confusion, a report on the then-underappreciated challenge of en...

Children living in poverty are more likely to have mental health problems, and their conditions are more likely to be severe. Of the approximately ...

The Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) programs provide federal research and development fundi...

Recent demographic trends in the Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) region will shape the growth and age composition of its populations for decades...

Antarctic and Southern Ocean scientific research has produced a wide array of important and exciting scientific advances. Spanning oceanography to ...

The United States manufactured significant quantities of chemical weapons during the Cold War and the years prior. Because the chemical weapons are...

The electromagnetic spectrum is a vital part of our environment. Measures of radio frequency emissions from natural phenomena enable both practical...

In 1993, the United States signed the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC), an international treaty outlawing the production, stockpiling, and use of ...